Unisa Research Outputhttp://hdl.handle.net/10500/37522019-02-21T17:07:49Z2019-02-21T17:07:49ZA critical overview of intra-familial violence and enforcement proceduresSongca, RushiellaLetseku, Rhttp://hdl.handle.net/10500/252852019-02-21T13:06:16Z1998-01-01T00:00:00ZA critical overview of intra-familial violence and enforcement procedures
Songca, Rushiella; Letseku, R
The submission interrogates the issue of domestic violence in its various forms and how courts, legislation and courts define and handle cases of domestic violence. The authors argue that the definitions currently in place are not inclusive of various forms of violence thus leaving victims without adequate remedies. They note that the Bill on domestic violence is likely to address some of these shortcomings.
1998-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Impact of legislation on childhood sexuality in South AfricaSongca, RushiellaKarels, MGhttp://hdl.handle.net/10500/252842019-02-21T13:03:21Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Impact of legislation on childhood sexuality in South Africa
Songca, Rushiella; Karels, MG
The purpose of this submission is two-fold. Firstly, it undertakes a socio-legal analysis of child sexuality and sexual behaviour. The goal of the analysis is to confront, albeit synoptically, common-held misperceptions, both legally and socially, on the subject of childhood sexuality. Secondly, the submission considers how legislation and judicial interpretation has responded to the expression of a child’s sexuality in South Africa. The legal and judicial analysis is centred on the categorization of age, and queries the wisdom of confining normal, non-deviant sexual development in terms of disparate age classifications as expressed in South African Legislation
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZGeregtelike en wetgewende reaksies op seksuele misdade deur en teen kinders in Suid-Afrikaen die potensiële gebruik van herstellendegeregtigheidspraktykeSongca, RushiellaKarels, MGhttp://hdl.handle.net/10500/252832019-02-21T13:02:44Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZGeregtelike en wetgewende reaksies op seksuele misdade deur en teen kinders in Suid-Afrikaen die potensiële gebruik van herstellendegeregtigheidspraktyke
Songca, Rushiella; Karels, MG
This contribution explores the judicial and legislative responses to sexual offences committed by, and against children. It premises its content against the contextual background of sexual offending in South Africa, and argues that traditional punitive responses to various forms of sexual crime are ineffective. It further postulates that the current status quo, at least insofar as child offences are concerned, goes against the grain of restorative justice. The authors argue that South Africa cannot simply apply either retributive or restorative justice to crimes of this nature but rather that the approaches can be blended as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to children who commit sexual offences, and children who are the victims of such offences. The submission argues for the use of restorative justice practices, primarily victim-offender mediation, where suitable on the merits.
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZLand, violence and womxn's bodies: an overview of implications of land reform and customary law on the rights of women in South AfricaSongca, Rushiellahttp://hdl.handle.net/10500/252822019-02-21T13:31:03Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZLand, violence and womxn's bodies: an overview of implications of land reform and customary law on the rights of women in South Africa
Songca, Rushiella
This focus on Land, Violence and Womxn’s bodies seeks to re-centre the debate on land as it relates to womxn’s
bodies. It highlights the dynamics engendered by womxn’s struggles for land, it explores the interface between
womxn’s rights and customary practices and demonstrates how womxn’s bodies, like land, have been shamed
and celebrated. This issue commemorates (un)celebrated womxn who continue to fight for their rights to land.
It incorporates themes on gender discrimination and land allocation, and it problematises the extent to which
land reform and other interventions have attempted to address gender inequalities which relate to the rights of womxn to communal and commercial land.
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